Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promptly and vocally shocked was Montana's British-baiting Burton K. Wheeler, who still suspects that Franklin Roosevelt "meddled" the U.S. into a war which was none of its business. Said he: the second front, at best, would be a "tremendous gamble." Why rush into something rash? And why settle for anything but a strictly 50-50 partnership? The British were not yet ready for a cross-Channel assault, anyway. The U.S., said Burt Wheeler, once took orders from Britain, but now seemed to be "following the demands of Mr. Stalin. . . . We ought to be extremely cautious before calling...
Emily Hahn, rash, black-haired, late-jazz-age authoress (Seductio ad Absurdum) who became Shanghai's favorite ex-New Yorker, deplored the lack of Occidental gossip. Back in the U.S. (via the Gripsholm) for the first time in nine years, the onetime "China Coast Correspondent" of The New Yorker sighed for the Oriental candor she had left behind: "When I talk to my friends, on the phone say, about some man who divorced his wife to run off with her daughter by a former marriage, they say: 'sh-sh, you're back in New York, you know...
Once again in the newspapers came a purse-stirring rash of headlines about the beautiful washers, irons, refrigerators and other aids to streamlined living that are just around the corner. But once again the spray of news evaporated. What was left: the citizenry, some time in 1944, will probably get 2,000,000 standardized, $35 electric irons, about one-third of peak production (1941); there may also be a few new refrigerators and washing machines...
Attended by loyal friends, Marjorie Burt and Bob Yingst of the eighth platoon were married Octobar 15. This was the first of a rash which has broken out in our company. The following week Betty McNaron wed elderly Ensign Kessler, whom everyone had believed to be a confirmed bachelor...
...Cycle? To most Americans it is almost unthinkable that Franklin Roosevelt could lose in 1944. But not so to Columnist Walter Lippmann, never rash, who calmly handed the 1944 election over to the Republicans. His reasons...